Questa è la discografia di Cyndi Lauper. Dall'inizio della sua carriera la cantante ha pubblicato 7 album registrati in studio, una raccolta di successi, Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some; un album a tema natalizio, Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life; un album di cover At Last dove reinterpreta canzoni degli anni '30-'50 ed un album di remake, The Body Acoustic, dove riarrangia e reinterpreta in maniera acustica, alcune canzoni tratte dal suo repertorio, insieme anche ad altri artisti.
Nella discografia di Cyndi Lauper si segnalano inoltre 2 remix album Hey Now! (Remixes & Rarities), pubblicato nel 2005 solo negli USA e Floor Remixes, pubblicato nel 2009 solo in Giappone.
Album Album in studio 1983 - She's So Unusual 1986 - True Colors 1989 - A Night to Remember 1993 - Hat Full of Stars 1997 - Sisters of Avalon 2004 - Shine uscito solo in Giappone 2008 - Bring Ya to the Brink (Epic/Sony Music)
Nel 2000 l'album di debutto, She's So Unusual, originariamente edito dalla CBS è stato ristampato dalla Sony sotto l'edizione Epic/Legacy curata da Bruce Dickinson, con 3 tracce live in più: Money Changes Everything, She Bop e All Through The Night.
Nel 2008, per il solo mercato giapponese, sono state pubblicate in un cofanetto le ristampe, con una bonus track ciascuno, dei primi 3 album (She's So Unusual, True Colors e A Night to Remember), nonché Twelve Deadly Cyns... and Then Some. Mentre The Essential Cyndi Lauper originariamente pubblicata nel 2003 a livello internazionale, è stata ristampata in concomitanza con il tour mondiale, con 2 bonus tracks ed un DVD.
Raccolte ufficiali 1994 - Twelve Deadly Cyns... and Then Some (Epic) 2005 - The Body Acoustic; album di canzoni in versione acustica
Album promozionali 1997 - "Selections From Sisters of Avalon" (USA)
Album a tema natalizio 1998 - Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life
Album di cover 2003 - At Last 2010 - Memphis Blues 2016 - Detour
Album di remix 2005 - Hey Now! (Remixes & Rarities) (Sony Music/BMG); uscito solo negli USA 2009 - Floor Remixes (Epic/Sony Music); uscito solo in Giappone
Altre Raccolte Epic 1998 - Wanna Have Fun (USA) 2000 - Time After Time - The Best of Cyndi Lauper 2000 - Cyndi Lauper - Vinteum Grandes Sucessos (2 CD) Brasile 2002 - V.I.P. (Germania) 2003 - All-Time Favourites (3 CD) USA
Epic/Legacy 2003 - The Essential Cyndi Lauper (Epic/Legacy) 2008 - The Essential Cyndi Lauper (Sony); (CD+DVD) solo per il Giappone 2003 - The Great Cyndi Lauper 2006 - Collections (Epic/Legacy)
Sony Bmg 2007 - The Very Best of Cyndi Lauper (CD+DVD) Francia 2007 - 2 CD Collection: Hey Now (Remixes & Rarities) / Wanna Have Fun (USA) 2007 - Full Discover Package Cyndi Lauper (USA) 2007 - #1-Discover Cyndi Lauper (USA) 2007 - #2-Discover Further Cyndi Lauper (USA) 2007 - #3-Discover More Cyndi Lauper (USA) 2007 - #4-Discover Beyond Cyndi Lauper (USA) 2009 - True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper (Sony Camden)
Extended play 1986 - The 12" Tape - Five 12" Mixes on One Cassette Portrait/CBS (Australia e UK); musicassetta 1986 - The Hit Cassette - Five Maxi Mixes on One Cassette Portrait/CBS (Paesi Bassi); musicassetta 1986 - The 12" Records Portrait/CBS (Australia), versione promozionale; vinile 1988 - The 12" Mixes Portrait/CBS (Australia); CD 1988 - The Best Remixes Portrait/CBS (Giappone); CD 2002 - Shine Oglio Records; CD 2008 - True Colors Live '08; digitale
Singoli Anno Titolo Posizioni massime in classifica Certificazioni Album di provenienza US US Dance AUSAustralian chart peaks: Top 100 (Kent Music Report) peaks to 19 June 1988: N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 19 June 1988. Top 50 (ARIA Chart) peaks from 26 June 1988: Top 100 (ARIA Chart) singles and albums peaks from January 1990 until December 2010: "Heading West" (ARIA Chart) peak: "A Night to Remember" (single) and "I'm Gonna Be Strong" (ARIA Chart) peaks: "Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)" (ARIA Chart) peak: "The World Is Stone", "Who Let In the Rain", "That's What I Think", "You Don't Know" and "Sisters of Avalon" (single) (ARIA Chart) peaks: Memphis Blues: ITA CAN FRA GER NLD NZL SWE SWI UKUK Chart peaks outside the top 75, between 1994 and 2010: UK chart peak for 'Another Brick In the Wall (Part 2)': 1983 "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" 2 1 1 3 1 2 6 4 1 5 6 2US: Platinum+Platinum (MT)Gold (Digital) UK: Silver CAN: 2× Platinum JPN: Gold FRA: Gold She's So Unusual 1984 "Time After Time" 1 2 6 5 1 9 6 8 3 10 7 3US: Gold UK: Silver JPN: Gold CAN: Platinum "She Bop" 3 10 6 5 3 34 19 41 6 — 10 46US: Gold CAN: Gold "All Through the Night" 5 — 17 5 7 — 35 — 19 — 16 64CAN：Gold "Money Changes Everything" 27 — 19 — 23 — 54 — 14 — — — 1985 "When You Were Mine" — — — — 62 — — — — — — — "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" 10 — 8 — 9 — 49 — 22 — — —JPN: Platinum CAN: Gold The Goonies (soundtrack) 1986 "True Colors" 1 — 3 8 1 49 18 14 8 — 17 12US: Platinum CAN: Gold True Colors "Change of Heart" 3 4 15 — 13 8 — — 41 — — 67 US: Gold 1987 "What's Going On" 12 17 52 — 30 — — 39 30 — — 57 "Boy Blue" 71 — — — — — — — — — — — "Maybe He'll Know" — — — — — — — — — — — — 1988 "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)" 54 — 8 — 86 — — — 8 — 13 — singolo 1989 "I Drove All Night" 6 — 11 — 8 10 19 54 10 — — 7US: Gold UK: Silver A Night to Remember "My First Night Without You" 62 — 47 — — 46 — — — — — 53 "Heading West" — — 117 — — — — — — — — 68 "A Night to Remember" — — — — — — — — — — — — 1990 "Primitive" — — — — — — — — — — — — "Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two)" (featuring Roger Waters) — — — — — — — — — — — 82 The Wall - Live in Berlin 1992 "The World Is Stone" — — — — — 2 100 — — — — 15FRA：Gold Tycoon 1993 "Who Let in the Rain" — — — — 76 — — — 12 — — 32 Hat Full of Stars "That's What I Think" — 14 — — — — — — — — — 31 "Sally's Pigeons" — — — — — — — — — — — — "Hat Full of Stars" — — — — — — — — — — — — 1994 "Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)" 87 — 62 — — 3 56 — 4 38 37 4UK: Silver Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some "I'm Gonna Be Strong" — — — — — — — — — — — 37 1995 "Come on Home" — 11 — — — — — — — — — 39 1997 "You Don't Know" 111 16 — — — — — — — — — 27 Sisters of Avalon "Sisters of Avalon" — — — — — — — — — — — — "Ballad of Cleo and Joe" 125 36 — — — — — — — — — — 1998 "Early Christmas Morning" — — — — — — — — — — — — Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life 1999 "Disco Inferno" — 8 — — — — — — — — — — A Night at the Roxbury (soundtrack) 2002 "Shine" — — — — — — — — — — — — Shine 2003 "At Last" — — — — — — — — — — — — At Last 2004 "Walk On By" — 10 — — — — — — — — — — 2005 "Time After Time" (featuring Sarah McLachlan) — — — — — — — — — — — — The Body Acoustic "Above the Clouds" (featuring Jeff Beck) — — — — — — — — — — — — 2008 "Set Your Heart" — — — — — — — — — — — — Bring Ya to the Brink "Same Ol' Story" — 1 — — — — — — — — — — "Into the Night Life" — 1 82 — — — — — — — — 168 "A Christmas Duel" (featuring The Hives) — — — — — — — — — 4 — — single only 2009 "Girls Just Wanna Set Your Heart" — — — — — — — — — — — — Floor Remixes 2010 "Just Your Fool" — — — — — — — — — — — — Memphis Blues "Early in the Mornin'" — — — — — — — — — — — —2011 "Home for the Holidays" (featuring Norah Jones) — — — — — — — — — — — — single only2012 "Sex Is in the Heel" — 6 — — — — — — — — — — Kinky Boots "—" indica che l'album non si è classificato in quel Paese.
Lati B inediti "Right Track Wrong Train" (Lato B del singolo "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" - 1984) "Heading for the Moon" (B-Side del singolo "True Colors", 1986) "Boy Blue" (Live) (B-Side del singolo "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)" - 1988) "Unabbreviated Love" (B-Side del singolo "My First Night Without You" - 1989) "Cold" (B-Side del singolo "Who Let In the Rain" - 1993) "That's What I Think" (Live Version) (B-Side del singolo "That's What I Think" - 1993)
Singoli in altri progetti Cyndi Lauper è presente in un singolo di Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) come "features"; partecipa in altri progetti a scopo umanitario quali USA for Africa, Peace Choir e N.M.L. No More Landmine; nel 2008 Cyndi Lauper duetta insieme ad un altro gruppo per una canzone-singolo di Natale. USA for Africa - "We Are the World" (1985) Roger Waters featuring Cyndi Lauper - "Another Brick in the Wall Part II" (1990) Peace Choir - "Give Peace a Chance" (1991) N.M.L. No More Landmine - "Zero Landmine" (2001) Dave Stewart & His Rock Fabulous Orchestra - "American Prayer" (2008) The Hives and Cyndi Lauper - "A Christmas Duel" (2008) Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper - "Slumdog millionaire" (2009)
Singoli promozionali "I'll Kiss You" (1985) "Unconditional Love" (Hong Kong, 1991) "Early Christmas Morning" (1998) "Walk On By" (2003) "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (2004) "Stay" (2004) "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" featuring Puffy Ami Yumi (Giappone, 2005) "Time After Time" featuring Sarah McLachlan (2005) "Above the Clouds" featuring Jeff Beck (2006) "Set Your Heart" (2008) "Into the Night Life" (USA, 2008)
Altri Singoli "You Make Loving Fun" (1984) Jam Spot (Giappone) - vinile da 12" (1989) Vavan Media Inc. (Giappone) - mini CD
Colonne sonore The Goonies (1985) A Night at Roxbury (1998) Southie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1999) Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II (2000) Queer as Folk - The Last Season (2005) The Backyardigans: Born to Play (2008)
In generale, Cyndi Lauper è presente in colonne sonore di film, serie TV e film d'animazione.
Nel dettaglio, nell'album della colonna sonora "I Goonies" Cyndi Lauper interpreta due canzoni: "(The Goonies 'R') Good Enough" canzone-tema principale insieme a "What a Thrill".
Reinterpreta il brano Disco Inferno, per la colonna sonora del film A Night at Roxbury.
Partecipa nel 1999 nel brano intitolato "If by Chance", cantato dal gruppo Wild Colonials, nella colonna sonora del film Southie.
Nel 2000, per la colonna sonora del cartone animato Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II, sequel del precedente The Rugrats Movie, Cyndi Lauper registra invece la canzone "I Want a Mom That Will Last Forever", utilizzata anche per sponsorizzare il film negli USA.
Nella colonna sonora di Queer as Folk - The Last Season, pubblicata nel 2005, vi è inserita una nuova versione remixata della canzone Shine, chiamata «Babylon Mix».
Nella terza stagione della serie TV a cartoni animati The Backyardigans: Born to Play, andata in onda in Canada nel 2008, la Lauper canta "The Lady in Pink".
Partecipazioni a raccolte Music Speaks Louder Than Words (1990) A Very Special Christmas 2 (1992) Put On Your Green Shoes (1993) Woman Rock: Girls and Guitars (2001) True Colors (2007)
In "Music Speak Louder Than Words" Cyndi Lauper canta "Cold Sky". Nella seconda raccolta a tema natalizio "A Very Special Christmas", pubblicata nel 1992, Cyndi Lauper duetta con Frank Sinatra in "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town". Insieme a Eric Bazilian, Rob Hyman e Three Cats and a Fiddle, Cyndi Lauper apre con "Put On Your Green Shoes" una raccolta del 1993 creata per l'intrattenimento dei più piccoli, per sensibilizzare al rispetto nel mondo per l'ambiente.
Album di remake 1992 - Tycoon 2003 - Wig in a Box - Songs from and inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Album tributo 2003 - Sincerely... 2 - Mariya Takeuchi Songbook 2004 - Creole Bred - A Tribute to Creole & Zydeco
"Tycoon" è un album-remake del 1992 in versione inglese dell'opera rock franco-canadese Starmania. Cyndi Lauper reinterpreta "Le monde est stone", che nell'album in questo caso è "The World is Stone" insieme ad un'altra canzone, "Les uns contre les autres" che diventa invece, "You Have to Learn to Live Alone".